Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish

Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

Autori

• Paul Wexler

Parametri

• 713 pagine
• 25 ore di lettura

• Letteratura mondiale
• Narrativa

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The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2002

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